[yul-naco] Fwd: ONIX Contributor Biographical Information

[Manon Theroux]

Forwarding an article that appeared in the latest LC Cataloging Newsline. 
It seems like this biographical information could be useful when creating 
NACO records (if the equivalent info wasn't already present on the item 
itself). I'm not sure how exactly you'd cite it, though. If anyone does 
find that they need to cite ONIX data, let me know and I can ask if there 
is a preferred method.

-Manon

>Date:         Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:25:21 -0400
>Sender: Library of Congress Cataloging Newsline <LCCN at loc.gov>
>From: David Williamson <dawi at loc.gov>
>Subject: LCCN V. 12, no. 8
>
>                       LC CATALOGING NEWSLINE
>          Online Newsletter of the Cataloging Directorate
>                        Library of Congress
>Volume 12, no. 8          ISSN 1066-8829              August 2004
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>                              CONTENTS
>
>             ONIX Contributor Biographical Information
>           Descriptive Cataloging Of East Asian Material
>                 BIBCO Operations Committee Meeting
>                CONSER Operations Committee Meeting
>        Web Access to Materials in the Public Domain Update
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>             ONIX CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
>
>      The LC Cataloging Directorate's Bibliographic Enrichment
>Advisory Team (BEAT)  is pleased to announce the implementation of
>a new project, ONIX Contributor Biographical Information.
>
>      ONIX (ONline Information eXchange) is a means of representing
>book industry product information and is being used by some
>publishers to communicate such data electronically.  The Library
>receives files of these data directly which often include
>information about contributors.  In the belief that this
>information will be of interest to researchers, BEAT has undertaken
>a biographical information initiative to make this information
>available.  The information is being linked from the catalog record
>to data stored on the Web. This will allow Web users to encounter
>the data and, in turn, to access the underlying catalog record and
>related items.
>
>      Because the data are created by the publishers and not by LC,
>the data on the Web will carry a notice to that effect.  In
>addition, a link (and display text) in the catalog record will
>allow a user of the catalog to access the web-based contributor
>data.
>
>      Almost 9,200 files have already been created and linked to the
>relevant catalog records.
>
>      Additional information as well as description of BEAT and its
>projects are available on the BEAT web site at
><http://www.loc.gov/catdir/beat/beat.html> [June 2004].
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